When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock.

Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.

So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

[Jesus] teaches that just as the sun gives light to both wicked and good, and the rain brings nourishment to righteous and unrighteous, God's compassion embraces all people. There are no pre-conditions for it, nothing we need to do first, nothing we have to believe. When we are ready to receive it, it is already there. And the more we live in its presence, the more effortlessly if flows through us, until we find that we no longer need external rules or Bibles or Messiahs.